Planning & Urban Development
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From  NEW! Planning for Access. Planning for Change.From: Living Disability |
Sarah Manteuffel writes about her experiences creating more accessible communities as a community planner, and describes ways for more inclusive planning practices. | Sarah Manteuffel | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Planning for an Unplanned CityFrom: Messy Cities |
Jason Thorne argues for factoring in “messy urbanism” and its challenges into how we plan our cities and to move away from a more top-down approach to city-building. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Planning Smart CitiesThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 3 explores planning smart cities. Topics discussed include transportation, census data, what is meant by urban ‘blight’, public and city … | John Lorinc | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Policies to Support Housing |
Housing conditions can have major impacts on physical and psychological health; as such, efforts to reduce social inequalities in health include fighting for access to decent housing. This … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Political Highs and LowsFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter looks at politics, evolutions in the energy industry, and Hydro-Quebec’s future. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! PrefaceFrom: The Spirit of Africville |
This chapter is a preface by Irvine Carvey, a descendant of Africville. He discusses the importance of remembering Africville and its residents, and their contributions to African Nova Scotian culture. | Irvine Carvey | 2 | 2026 | $0.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Preface |
An introduction to the structure and purpose of the book and author acknowledgements. | Joseph Lyons; Zachary Spicer | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Ideology over Economics |
In this section the author outlines his background as well as providing a list of terms and initialisms that will be used throughout the rest of the text. | John Loxley | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Pretty DismalFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” on tourism and health policy. Both were found to be seriously deficient. | Robert Ashe | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Privatized Policymaking on Toronto’s WaterfrontFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 4 explores how smart cities projects allow private companies to shape municipal policies to suit their own interests as opposed to the interests of the population. | Natasha Tusikov | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! (Pseudo-) Participation in Smart City PlanningSidewalk Labs’ Fraught Toronto Foray From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 2 explores the factors that must be present for a smart cities project to be responsible and effective and then asses whether the Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto met any of these criteria. | Andrew Clement | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Public Health in the Post-Covid EraFrom: Messy Cities |
Dr. Andrew Boozary writes about how the pandemic illustrated that public health and equity in Canada do not meet the standards many Canadians expect. | Dylan Reid | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Race to the bottomInequality and poverty |
The fourth chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers the equity and poverty aspects of public transit versus the automobile, asserting that communities that are serious about … | James Wilt | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Racing Your BicycleChapter 7 |
In Racing Your Bicycle Waters examines competitive cycling in Canada and how its body of regulations straddles both private and public law. While the regulations adopted by private cycling … | Christopher Waters | 46 | 2022 | $4.60 Add |
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From NEW! Rasta Cape TownFrom: Messy Cities |
Kofi Hope reflects on their experience living in Cape Town, South Africa, and how the Rastafarians they met there were messy urbanists: community builders, peacemakers, entrepreneurs, … | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From Redacted to NothingThe Public-Private Partnerships Transparency and Accountability Act, Manitoba From: Ideology over Economics |
Postscript 2019 | John Loxley | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
